This is currently under construction and will help to organize and sort the stickies out and to minimize clutter due to growing information and topics.

As you may have noticed the stickies have been getting dropped. The Chapters that are linked will also be replaced and be non hyper text due to the stickies not being updated and are lacking all the latest links that the actual "Guide" has. Thanks for sending/recommending posts and links. Where appropriate they have been included.

For this, let's not take into account what hardware you specifically may already have, but what hardware is available for the different configurations. This allows us to be more general, which is useful for the masses.

Note: This pertains to being able to emulate and datalog at the same time. The outline below is not necessary if you only wish to emulate or datalog independently. This assumes real-time emulation is what is desired.

Note 2: This reply does not take into account all emulation/ALDL hardware. Use the info that is here and the info you have for the hardware of your choice to determine port and configuration compatibility.

The following suggestions should work well with most ALDL and Tuning software, namely:

This setup is a little harder to configure and may not work in all situations (because of the involvement of a serial to USB converter), but will probably work in 9 out of 10 PC configurations. The idea is to use the serial to USB converter with the Romulator, since it uses a very standard 115kbaud communication baud, which is compatible with all converters. Doing it this way is recommended over using the USB converter for the ALDL cable since 8192 baud is not universally supported by USB converters.

This is a collaborative effort of Bob, Glenn and Jeremy. The basis for this guide came from Tim's original sticky collection (posts and links collected from this board) and has been modified in format and text and updated where appropriate. So much new material has come forth and new topics written that we would again reclutter the board with a mass of stickies. This project has been undertaken to hopefully map out the "prom tuning bible" if you will and organize the information here at thirdgen.org to the best of our abilities.